Rabbi Aaron I. Reichel, Esq., is a New York attorney who has written many articles on secular and Jewish topics, and has written, edited, and/or supplemented various biographies, most notably of Rabbi ...

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Dr. Jeffrey Folks is the author of Heartland of the Imagination (2011).

Saul Jay Singer serves as senior legal ethics counsel with the District of Columbia Bar and is a collector of extraordinary original Judaica documents and letters. He welcomes comments at at sauljsing ...

Chizuk, “to be strong,” is often experienced as a strengthening derived from some external source of inspiration. We all have appreciated some good chizuk at one point in our lives. Yet chizuk that ...

Chizuk can be translated as strength or encouragement. But it’s not about pushing harder or “being strong” in the way we usually think about it. Chizuk is the kind of strength that comes from being ...

The Jewish Press joins Klal Yisrael in mourning the death of Rabbi Julius Berman, for more than half a century a foremost leader in its emergence as a force on the American scene. A gifted lawyer and ...

Among the more curious acquisitions to cross my desk this week was a pair of rare Talmud volumes that owe their existence to one of the most brilliant – and most vexing – rabbinic figures of the early ...

In my view, far too many valuable resources and an extensive amount of energy were spent in generating votes for the American portion of the World Zionist Congress elections. And I say this as a ...

The Philadelphia Israel Chamber of Commerce is asking whether it makes sense to shutter a consulate located in the heart of a financial market that sees 25% of Israel's exports to the US pass through ...

Recap: Chani visits an old friend, Leah Stein, in her basement apartment in Westgate. Leah was once wealthy but is now poor, widowed, and infirm. Chani left Leah with a promise to return again in a ...